Leon Crosby
@lcrosby.bsky.social
Data analyst in UK higher education.
Genuinely after being the 'joker' as a dancer he's now my favourite judge. Funny, but gives really good, smart feedback.
December 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Genuinely after being the 'joker' as a dancer he's now my favourite judge. Funny, but gives really good, smart feedback.
I had stollen for breakfast so I'm going to say yes.
December 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I had stollen for breakfast so I'm going to say yes.
I'm rooting for the cat here.
December 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I'm rooting for the cat here.
We are broken as a nation if we're fining a woman for pouring her coffee away getting and getting chased down by three absolute jobsworths and yet we allow water companies to pump literal shit into our rivers every day.
December 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We are broken as a nation if we're fining a woman for pouring her coffee away getting and getting chased down by three absolute jobsworths and yet we allow water companies to pump literal shit into our rivers every day.
Your article was great but that link to the case of the women fined for pouring her coffee down a drain made me genuinely furious.
December 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Your article was great but that link to the case of the women fined for pouring her coffee down a drain made me genuinely furious.
That's bonkers, they just don't want to do the work. I have a 120 year old terrace and with loft insulation and decent double glazing my heating bill is well under 150 quid a month. The idea that old terraces are just too hard or expensive to upgrade is nonsense.
December 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
That's bonkers, they just don't want to do the work. I have a 120 year old terrace and with loft insulation and decent double glazing my heating bill is well under 150 quid a month. The idea that old terraces are just too hard or expensive to upgrade is nonsense.
Unfortunately I think you might have a point.
November 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Unfortunately I think you might have a point.
They are, though I did wait in a queue for over an hour once for them. Probably worth it, though.
November 23, 2025 at 11:30 AM
They are, though I did wait in a queue for over an hour once for them. Probably worth it, though.
It's not the same but very similar to the one they have at Beamish museum that's still frying fish and chips!
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
It's not the same but very similar to the one they have at Beamish museum that's still frying fish and chips!
I genuinely don't think people realise just how much bigger a billion is vs. a million. It doesn't help that we Brits (apologies) used to have a different definition but even so, a thousand million (as it's usually defined now) of something is a LOT of something.
November 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I genuinely don't think people realise just how much bigger a billion is vs. a million. It doesn't help that we Brits (apologies) used to have a different definition but even so, a thousand million (as it's usually defined now) of something is a LOT of something.
This and The Happiness Patrol get a lot of hate but imo are both extremely underrated. Yes, it was very on the nose, but the campy subversiveness used to tell what about both really quite dark, macabre stories, works for me.
November 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This and The Happiness Patrol get a lot of hate but imo are both extremely underrated. Yes, it was very on the nose, but the campy subversiveness used to tell what about both really quite dark, macabre stories, works for me.
Funnily enough, our old campus was just around the corner (literally) on Marsh Wall. But yes, the new building is rather swanky.
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Funnily enough, our old campus was just around the corner (literally) on Marsh Wall. But yes, the new building is rather swanky.
We've had a campus in London for more then 10 years, but it has recently (this year) moved to this new location.
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
We've had a campus in London for more then 10 years, but it has recently (this year) moved to this new location.
If you're interested, 1 percentage point is roughly 15 pixels in the original image.
November 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
If you're interested, 1 percentage point is roughly 15 pixels in the original image.
Interestingly the gap between them is proportionally correct, the problem is the X axis starts at about 21% which is a classic trick to make gaps look bigger because you're essentially zooming in. It should look more like this...
November 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Interestingly the gap between them is proportionally correct, the problem is the X axis starts at about 21% which is a classic trick to make gaps look bigger because you're essentially zooming in. It should look more like this...
Exactly! All because I plan, someday, to fit insulation in the loft and wanted some idea how much the temp varies over time. I did try and make the 'device' in the attic look as much like a 1970s Doctor Who prop as possible.
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Exactly! All because I plan, someday, to fit insulation in the loft and wanted some idea how much the temp varies over time. I did try and make the 'device' in the attic look as much like a 1970s Doctor Who prop as possible.
I have my own dashboard monitoring temp and humidity in my office and in my attic... Both home made and coded setups using rp picos, the one in the attic runs a wee web server I can grab the data from remotely. You gotta have hobbies.
November 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I have my own dashboard monitoring temp and humidity in my office and in my attic... Both home made and coded setups using rp picos, the one in the attic runs a wee web server I can grab the data from remotely. You gotta have hobbies.
I know this is a small thing, but DEI Isn't a thing in the UK. It's almost universally reffered to as EDI (in the workplace at least) and anytime I see people refer to it as DEI I just assume they've imported their opinions from the American right.
November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I know this is a small thing, but DEI Isn't a thing in the UK. It's almost universally reffered to as EDI (in the workplace at least) and anytime I see people refer to it as DEI I just assume they've imported their opinions from the American right.
Yes, but plenty of other folk have said it's not uncommon to call cousins or even close friends 'uncle' or 'aunt', especially as children. I think what this demonstrates is it's both common and quite ubiquitous regardless of nation or culture.
October 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Yes, but plenty of other folk have said it's not uncommon to call cousins or even close friends 'uncle' or 'aunt', especially as children. I think what this demonstrates is it's both common and quite ubiquitous regardless of nation or culture.
In the UK, I think particularly in the working-class, it's very common to call extended family or even neighbours 'aunt' or 'uncle'. The family who lived opposite me as a bairn were referred to as such. This is very silly.
October 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
In the UK, I think particularly in the working-class, it's very common to call extended family or even neighbours 'aunt' or 'uncle'. The family who lived opposite me as a bairn were referred to as such. This is very silly.
Good news, even though they look furious about it!
October 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Good news, even though they look furious about it!